Tornado Warning 43, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

May 26, 1999, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Loving County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

999 
WFUS1 KMAF 270026 RRA
TORMAF
TXC301-270100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
725 PM CDT WED MAY 26 1999

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOVING COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 720 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER WEST
  CENTRAL LOVING COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND
VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3197 10385 3177 10376 3173 10342 3199 10347

RSB

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 26, 2:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
214 PM CDT (114 PM MDT) WED MAY 26 1999

STRATUS DECK HAS FORMED OVER MUCH OF THE CWA...HOWEVER IS BEGINNING
TO BURN OFF FROM THE WEST. THIS DECK OF LOW CLOUDS WILL DELAY THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL THE LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING
HOURS. CURRENTLY A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT IS PUSHING ITS WAY SOUTH
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS/NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN. LOOKING AT
PRESSURE RISES BEHIND THE FRONT INDICATE THAT IT WILL CONTINUE A SLOW
PUSH TO THE SOUTH FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MEANWHILE AN UPPER LEVEL
SYSTEM LOCATED OVER NRN NM IS PROGD TO EJECT A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF
ENERGY ACROSS WEST TEXAS BETWEEN OOZ AND 06Z TONIGHT. GIVEN THE
ALREADY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA...THIS IN COMBINATION
WITH A SURFACE BOUNDARY SHOULD SET THE STAGE FOR A RATHER INTERESTING
NIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN CWA. TOMORROW COULD SEE MORE OF THE SAME AS
ANOTHER VORT MAX ROLLS ACROSS THE AREA. FRIDAY WILL LIKELY GET A
SMALL BREAK FROM THE DAY TO DAY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...HOWEVER FOR
THE EXTENDED WILL BE BACK INTO A PATTERN OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND
THUDNERSTORMS CWA WIDE.

MAF 060/082 060/086 4322
CNM 058/082 058/086 3222
MRF 052/082 052/085 2222
P07 065/086 065/089 4322

MARTIN

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.